Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. — Johnathon Schaech
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the… — Bill Wyman
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. — Aaron Eckhart
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer,… — Michael Jackson
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as… — John Cassavetes
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being… — Jennifer Beals
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books… — Arsene Wenger
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette
A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting. — Alison Krauss
Jesse Joyce is a great writer. — Dave Attell
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. — Robert Englund
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do. — Debbie Harry
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and… — Trey Parker
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great,… — Steven Curtis Chapman
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if… — Samuel West
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. — Joni Mitchell
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to… — Dirk Benedict
Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun! — Odeya Rush
They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe… — Cynthia Rylant
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside… — Gene Weingarten
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you… — Padgett Powell
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell

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